10 Things to Consider When Choosing a WordPress Theme

Have you ever been impressed by the presentation of a theme and bought it immediately and regret for it the next day? Just not how you expect it, just so disappointing. Well you are not alone! As a freelancer, i have been on that bad situation, that’s why am writing this post 🙂 .

Now i know what you may say : ‘Another guide/tutorial/how to, is going to show me the way to solution, like i can’t make good decisions by myself!’. You have all your right of course, but sometimes experiences are priceless and very handful when they come from a Bad decision.

As an optimistic person i have done the first best thing to handle the situation. Asking for improvements and help at The support forum. Actually, it is a very good tip on how to deal with disappointment 🙂 .

Or not..

Anyway, here are some tips and stuff to consider before buying a wordpress theme.

Know what you want to built

With knowing what you are trying to create starts everything. Even if you are building a business, blog, news, portfolio or niche website

you should focus on the content.

It is essential to understand the power of the content. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. When choosing the perfect content you are thinking also about yourself, because is it yours to work with first. The presentation and the design is a customer more focused thing, because when a client visits your site for the first time is the demonstration that will catch their eye. But either ways, what will make your site keep going is the content.

What will the content of a wordpress theme include ?

This is more of a subjective question, but there are some components that you just can not ignore on a theme. You can setup a plan on your mind and write it down. Create a list of all the pages that you want to have on your site and what will they include. The more detailed, the better.

Than its time to think about the features of the website, starting from basics til the advanced ones. For Example if you are a creative mind and search for dynamic pages, the animations and effects should never being put before the basic components.

First Content Thing : Responsivity

If you like the theme and haven’t checked the responsivity yet, do it immediately! They all claim that are retina ready, responsive, that fit well on every device size etc. But is better to check it yourself. It’s not an option, it is a must for a theme to display well responsivity. To verify this you can go to This suggested website and paste the link here.

We did a review of best responsive wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

Second Content Thing : Cross Browser Compatibility

Cross-browser compatibility is the theme’s ability to support all the web browsers. Even if your don’t use different types of browsers, you should now! Creating a website to serve all the customers it means that you should think for all of them. They may use different browsers and it is more professional to have a website that will fit and be compatible with all of them.

This is an important thing to keep in mind while testing the theme. Usually this is a mentioned thing on the theme presentation, but even if is not you can check it by yourself, testing the theme on every browser.

We did a review of best cross-browser compatible wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

Third Content Thing : SEO Optimization

SEO or Search engine optimization, is the process of making your website visible on a web search, by not including the paid results. So this means that if a website is SEO optimized the results you get when searching for it, are totally earned. The majority of wordpress themes claim that they are SEO Optimized, so this include that they have the right SEO coding and practices to make your website searchable.

You may not know for sure how true is their statement, but a good theme with a trusted author doesn’t have any reason to lie to you about that. You can take a short test about SEO with the help of this Service.

We did a review of best SEO optimized wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

Fifth Content Thing : The Plugins

Always check the plugins list when choosing a theme. They are the ‘fuel’ of a WordPress site. Look for a theme that supports all the popular plugins of the moment and why not some other extra ones. Got to make sure your site is unique at the end!

Sixth Content Thing : Translation Ready

Why not! Your Customers may be from different countries, so having an easy translatable website for them is a plus. Make sure your theme is Translation ready and support a majority of translation plugins.

We did a review of best SEO optimized wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

The Theme Support

Let’s not forget about this important component of a theme. It is not included on theme content, but it comes right after that. You benefit a lot from buying a theme with support, especially when it has a great support team. You benefit from learning new stuff, from fixing some bugs and issues directly to your site, you can ask about a lot of things and customizations ( according to the theme support policies) .

We did a review of top notch support rated wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

Theme Ratings and Reviews

For a theme the review and ratings are important too. You can read what really customers say about the theme and service. Depending on this factor will give a better idea what the theme is being seen on the eye of the visitors.

We did a review of top rated wordpress themes, you can watch it here :

So basically these are the most important thing to keep in mind while choosing your theme. We suggest you to search for better themes on Envato Market > Themeforest. It is by far the best market to find high quality themes (Premium Themes).